Yay! My third ever ticker!
Rob, I discovered the term 'degloving' by chance. At the back of the house is a mill stream with a pair of breeding swans on it. One day the cob decided that one of his youngsters wasn't his, and attacked it. I managed to get the young one away from the cob & rushed it to the vet. The poor thing had all of its neck 'degloved,' but the vet managed to stitch the skin back in place. The RSPCA took him to a swan sanctuary in Norfolk, where he was killed and eaten by Poles lived happily ever after.